Why make a blog and not a podcast?

 

Why make a blog and not a podcast?

Shit, is this really going to be my first chapter? I really don't know if I can say shit on the internet I feel like Sabrina Carpenter in her Netflix Christmas special but the point is that I think it's a good introduction to be honest.

Let's start by talking about how I don't like fame, wow go slow down sister! 

I'm not saying I'm famous but I don't like attention at least not that style. 

I mean come on I've fantasized about being/creating movies and going to red carpets but is it worth it? 

Look at Britney Spears damn, I don't want my mental health to be exposed in the media to be a future meme or worse yet I don't want people to profit from my death.

I don't know how faithful or loyal Dickinsons series is to history,( sorry for being ignorant of the subject ) Everything I know about Emily Dickinson I know from little poems I've seen over the years and the Apple TV series, am I proud of that? No but that's how I know her.

I know that the series is not a bibliographical representation it's just entertainment what I'm getting at with this is: have you seen that episode where Emily sells her poems, so them can be published and then the whole subplot of that episode happens is trying to get her poems back,  the point of this is that Emily was told that if her poems weren't sold at that time she would never be known, once again I say I don't know how loyal to reality many things in this series are but in that episode Emily explains that what she want is not fame, she did this because she loved to write.

Like anyone who creates something at some point we want to be seen, but we don't want to be seen if it means abandoning the essence of who we are

A poem by Emily Dickinson says: This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me.

I leave it to your own interpretation.

Accepting fame comes with an unwritten law and that is that everyone in the world has the right to talk about you. Come on, we all hated rumors that were created about us in high school coming from people who didn't care about us thinking they had a clue what our lives are about multiply that to 9.9% of the entire human rate with internet access,  it's fucked up. I'd shave my head too, Britney.

This takes up a lot of time in my head for some reason. Talking, not talking doing or not doing, posting or not, who you talk to who it is no, I've always hated gossip about celebrities.

Imagine living doing what you love acting say any hobby and suddenly you have thousands of people in your comments on Instagram asking you why you didn't make a post about some social issue you don't understand or are just learning about but you always have to have an opinion AND it always has to be ''the right one.''

Wait, does making a podcast make you a celebrity?

No, but I think they run for the same public exposure right? Right?

Don't get me wrong, I don't think posting a tik tok will make you as popular as Marilyn Monroe, but if you're going to have a certain weight over the people who consume your content and ''are you responsible for their thoughts?'' it's a little crazy if you ask me.

There's a movie that many people love, personally it's not one of my favorites and I hadn't seen it for a couple of years ago but definitely everyone in the world knows Easy A.

There is a phrase that has gone unnoticed in this film and it is so funny to me because it is so true and the more time passes the more accurate it is and is: I don't know what your generation's fascination is with documenting your every thought... but I can assure you, they're not all diamonds.

This is a whole separate topic that I will probably deal with in the near or distant future or maybe not, probably not, and it is with the ease with which content is created nowadays even if you do not have any talent.

It is currently relatively easy to connect to content from the internet, the quarantine made us excessive consumers of digital content and anything that generates dopamine instantly, many people have explained this over these 4 years so I really do not want to emphasize them, but we are aware that we are really not able to even sit down and watch a 40-minute series.

We are really consuming more content and increasingly poorer quality in every sense of the word or why do you think that recent series only have 3 seasons and 5 episodes each?

I really wouldn't want to be a person who pretends to be something they're not on the internet. There are people giving opinions on a topic for fear of being cancelled, even sometimes things they don't agree with. Even keeping silent is bad. I understand that there are really extreme cases where we should speak and take sides, but not everyone has to have an opinion and especially give them in public. I mean, are we really going to ask for more responsibility from political parties to celebrities on Instagram than from the people themselves to the government?

Even so, pretending that you agree with something because of some kind of internet regulation that someone in this generation put in place is really sick.

Maybe that's the reason I'm not making any kind of content, hey if I could get some money a job where I'll bring some bread home that would be great, but I don't want to be doing this just for money or going viral

I think we all know Jonathan Larson either from his Netflix adaptation or because you really know his story, I'm going to tell you that I break down in tears thinking about this story and even more knowing that it's a real case, and it's not hard to believe that this is real, there are hundreds of Jonathan Larson out there and it fills me with fear and sadness.

I just want to put this topic on the table.

I’ve always really liked writing, among many other things, I think from 2002 onwards (oh hello girl born in 2002 right here) you had the chance to see the rise of romcoms and chick-flits, they’re fucking popular now, I mean they always were, but come on, we know that consuming content ‘for girls’ was sometimes frowned upon, I mean we know that the chick-flits genre was a mockery of women and what they saw, this is a topic I’d like to talk about maybe in the future. The point is characters like Andy from How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Jane from 27 Dresses, Carrie from Sex and the City, Harper from Set It Up, Barret from See You Yesterday, Jane from The Bold Type and I think the most recent is Emily from Emily in Paris, are just a few of the characters you can name right now but for some reason I've always had a fascination for this kind of work which is a bit influenced by the culture of the 2000s where most of these movies belong but yes.

In fact one of them who I named was Barret, belonging to a book I'm currently reading and I highlighted this phrase specifically for this for this chapter: Journalism and early-2000s pop culture and rarely thinking before i speak. That's pretty much it.

And to paraphrase Harper, I just want to write the same articles that made me cry when I was a child.

I think that's it it's a good way to start, if you really liked what I wrote some references to cinema culture my way of narrating and so on I hope to see read you again.